Fifteen-year-old Sinclair Vox is a storyteller: ever since he was little, he has been scribbling in notebooks, trying to pen an epic. Now, someone has brought to life an eldritch plague which robs the sound from the world, and Sinclair is the only one in his hometown who still has his voice. Confronted by the realization that his story has preserved him, Sinclair sets out to find a story strong enough to rid his home of the Silence forever. Guided by a magazine editor whose past is shrouded in mystery and pursued by a woman who can spread the Silence with a wave of her hand, Sinclair must...